Pushing-hands and periperformativity

Douglas Robinson

doi:10.4324/9781315697680-15

Pushing-hands and periperformativity

Douglas Robinson^*

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Let me begin here by returning to my suggestion in the Introduction that pushing-hands-like taijiquan -is not just a training exercise, but a performance. Certainly the YouTube videos to which Martha Cheung directs our attention in her article (2012a: 161; this volume, p. 25) are performative, in the obvious sense that they are ﬁ lmed in order to be viewed by us, their audience; the many other YouTube videos featuring pushing-hands competitions, like “Pushing hands Taiwan Tai Chi World Championship tui shou” (www.youtube. com/watch?v=PWZJEehHK-c), make this performative aspect unavoidable. Martha too, in presenting her pushing-hands model to academic audiences, not only always showed those YouTube videos; the second time I saw her give the talk, at the Nida School for Translation Studies in Misano, in May 2012, she asked for a volunteer from the audience to push hands with her up front.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Pushing-Hands of Translation and its Theory
Subtitle of host publication	In memoriam Martha Cheung, 1953-2013
Editors	Douglas Robinson
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Chapter	11
Pages	193-216
Number of pages	24
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781315697680
ISBN (Print)	9781138901759, 9780367133856
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315697680-15
Publication status	Published - 12 May 2016

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Name	Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
Publisher	Routledge

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The Pushing-Hands of Translation and its Theory: In memoriam Martha Cheung, 1953-2013. ed. / Douglas Robinson. 1st. ed. London: Taylor and Francis, 2016. p. 193-216 (Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies).

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